Shopping once again on L.L.Bean’s website, my attention was taken by the company’s customer service credo, proudly posted there for as long as I can remember. During the time I spent in a for-profit business, before beginning my non-profit career, I became aware of the extent to which the for-profit sector was (had to be) …
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Credit Saint Review: Pros, Cons, & Features Compared
Credit Saint’s credit repair and monitoring packages are helpful if you’ve faced challenges with past credit issues and are constantly hassled by collection companies. The company specializes in directly contacting credit bureaus to dispute inaccuracies on your credit report and works to have them removed. In this article, we’ve thoroughly reviewed Credit Saint, exploring the …
What is a sticky idea? One of the most stimulating books I have read in recent years in one by Chip Heath and Dan Heath called Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die (2007). By sticky, the Heath brothers mean that “your ideas are understood and remembered, and have a lasting impact …
In my (May 12, 2011) post, “Grantsmanship: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,” I quoted from a 2010 WealthEngine white paper stating that the average cost-per-dollar-raised for grants is 20 cents … an ROI of 500%. With such an impressive return on investment, starting a grants program at your NPO might seem like a …
There’s a phenomenon in our communities public or local education foundations (PEFs or LEFs) that have been created/designed with political agendas the politics of education, and the politics of inclusion. People in communities all over the country, espousing one educational philosophy or another, are working to influence their school boards and local political structures to …
I have found it necessary, far too many times during my years in the nonprofit professionals’ world, to face/deal with the nearly impossible challenge of helping an organization maximize efficiency and effectiveness when a single person is required to be the executive director, the fund-raising development professional and the marketing/communications/PR professional … all at the …
Corporate Donations: Grants and Sponsorships to Foundations As your NPO looks to increase its revenue from corporations, it is important to distinguish between grants from corporate foundations and corporate sponsorships. Both are important sources of revenue, and both come from corporations – many even from the same corporation… But, since they differ in many significant …
“There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.” -– Mark Twain Here are some statistics about the CFC – Combined Federal Campaign, and some common sense observations as to why you should almost always not base your actions on numbers that reflect the entire non-profit sector. It would be like getting a weather report for the …
